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What it looks like inside my brain.

laqrhead — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:56:30 +0000

What it looks like inside my brain.

This Picture Has Everything

laqrhead — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:35:26 +0000

Me, Eden, and Gretchen

Me, one of my kids (Eden), the dog (Gretchen), the guinea pigs (just a little bit of Cinnamon), a VW van, Darth Vader on a record, Dill, and my bass (behind the guinea pig cage).

Worst Pinball Machine Ever

laqrhead — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:06:56 +0000

A couple weekends we stayed at the Comfort Inn in Kamloops. We’ve stayed there a few times before, mostly because it has a pool and waterslide which the kids love. However this was our fist stay on the second floor which has a “games room.” I’m not sure how I could have missed this gem before.

You know the games room is gonna rock when the first thing you see is this:

Sega Out Run

Best value: don't put a quarter in because the game is broken.

So I put in my 3 quarters for two plays and it says there are 6 credits. Woot! Two games for a quarter! The table was old and I noticed a few problems off the bat, like the rubber around the left flipper was floppy and loose, but whatever. But then I started to notice the rubber was falling off everywhere. The balls kept getting stuck and you had to tilt the machine to get them out.

Finally three balls got stuck during a thrilling multi-ball episode and the machine shut down. It feebily displayed a message on it’s dying display: “3 BALLS MISSING.” I managed to get them free by almost flipping the machine upside down, but eventually they all got stuck in the same spot again and could not be freed.

I caught a couple other people plugging in quarters only to find out it wasn’t working. I guess that’s how they make money off this machine. Anyways, in the end I think I had more fun with the broken machine than I would have if it actually worked.

Some more bad pictures of the “Games Room.”

3-8-5 is the New 1-2-3

laqrhead — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:20:18 +0000

I was trying to teach Kaisey how to count, without much success. The results are very cute though.

Getting things started.

laqrhead — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:18:40 +0000

I don’t have a lot to post about right now, my brains a bit fizzled from programming all day, so perhaps I’ll start by reposting some old stuff I’ve posted to other sites. In the meantime you can take a look at bald me.

Going bald for the party.